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title: Increase scheduling priority (Windows 10)
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description: Describes the best practices, location, values, policy management, and security considerations for the Increase scheduling priority security policy setting.
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ms.assetid: fbec5973-d35e-4797-9626-d0d56061527f
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ms.reviewer:
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ms.author: dansimp
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ms.prod: w10
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ms.mktglfcycl: deploy
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ms.sitesec: library
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ms.pagetype: security
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ms.localizationpriority: medium
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author: dansimp
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manager: dansimp
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audience: ITPro
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ms.collection: M365-security-compliance
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 07/13/2017
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---
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# Increase scheduling priority
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**Applies to**
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- Windows 10
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Describes the best practices, location, values, policy management, and security considerations for the **Increase scheduling priority** security policy setting.
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## Reference
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This policy setting determines which user accounts can increase the base priority class of a process. It is not a privileged operation to increase relative priority within a priority class. This user right is not required by administrative tools that are supplied with the operating system, but it might be required by software development tools.
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Specifically, this security setting determines which accounts can use a process with Write Property access to another process to increase the run priority that is assigned to the other process. A user with this privilege can change the scheduling priority of a process through the Task Manager user interface.
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Constant: SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege
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### Possible values
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- User-defined list of accounts
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- Not defined
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- Administrators
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### Best practices
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- Retain the default value as the only accounts responsible for controlling process scheduling priorities.
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### Location
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Computer Configuration\\Windows Settings\\Security Settings\\Local Policies\\User Rights Assignment
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## Policy management
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This section describes features, tools, and guidance to help you manage this policy.
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A restart of the computer is not required for this policy setting to be effective.
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Any change to the user rights assignment for an account becomes effective the next time the owner of the account logs on.
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### Group Policy
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Settings are applied in the following order through a Group Policy Object (GPO), which will overwrite settings on the local computer at the next Group Policy update:
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1. Local policy settings
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2. Site policy settings
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3. Domain policy settings
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4. OU policy settings
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When a local setting is greyed out, it indicates that a GPO currently controls that setting.
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## Security considerations
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This section describes how an attacker might exploit a feature or its configuration, how to implement the countermeasure, and the possible negative consequences of countermeasure implementation.
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### Vulnerability
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A user who is assigned this user right could increase the scheduling priority of a process to Real-Time, which would leave little processing time for all other processes and could lead to a denial-of-service condition.
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### Countermeasure
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Verify that only Administrators and Window Manager/Window Manager Group have the **Increase scheduling priority** user right assigned to them.
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### Potential impact
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None. Restricting the **Increase scheduling priority** user right to members of the Administrators group and Window Manager/Window Manager Group is the default configuration.
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## Related topics
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- [User Rights Assignment](user-rights-assignment.md)
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- [Increase scheduling priority for Windows Server 2012 and earlier](https://docs.microsoft.com/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn221960(v%3dws.11))
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